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Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:10:54 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:14:09 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Ah, yes, sorry I did not see that the problem with M-TAB when Alt is
> used as meta is mentioned neither in the doc string for
> w32-pass-alt-to-system or in the footnote. I definitively think it
> should be mentioned in both places since that is a big problem.
M-TAB is not a Windows-specific problem, so it should be documented in
the common part of the manual, if at all. Then the Windows appendix
could have a cross-reference to that description in the common part.
> And you can not either access the menus the way that is normal on w32, i
> e by first pressing the Alt key.
Sorry, I don't understand what is the problem to which you refer here.
The manual says:
Emacs compiled as a native Windows application normally turns off
the Windows feature that tapping the <ALT> key invokes the Windows
menu. The reason is that the <ALT> serves as <META> in Emacs. When
using Emacs, users often press the <META> key temporarily and then
change their minds; if this has the effect of bringing up the Windows
menu, it alters the meaning of subsequent commands. Many users find
this frustrating.
You can re-enable Windows' default handling of tapping the <ALT> key
by setting `w32-pass-alt-to-system' to a non-`nil' value.
What is missing or incorrect in this text?
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/17
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/18
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/18
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/18
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/20
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/20
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/20
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/20
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/20
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/20
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/23
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/23
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Jan Djärv, 2006/12/24
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/24
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/25
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/25
- Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/26